Single-player games like Time Gap Puppies
Below are 15 single-player Steam games similar to Time Gap Puppies, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Super Time Force Ultra
Single-player alternative to Time Gap Puppies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Time Gap Puppies.
Super Time Force Ultra is an insane platformer filled with robots and dinosaurs and fun and time travel... sometimes all at the same time!
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Waves
Single-player alternative to Time Gap Puppies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Time Gap Puppies.
Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!
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Bleed 2
Single-player alternative to Time Gap Puppies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Time Gap Puppies.
Bleed 2 is a relentless arcade action game featuring air-dodging, bullet-reflecting, and tons of bosses. Now with randomly-generated levels and daily challenges, too!
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DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours
Single-player alternative to Time Gap Puppies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Time Gap Puppies.
DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours is the latest installment in Taito's DARIUS series of arcade-style shooting games. Blast hordes of alien sea-monsters, and blaze your own trail through branching environments.
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Beat Hazard
Single-player alternative to Time Gap Puppies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Time Gap Puppies.
Experience your music collection like never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.
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Astebreed: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Time Gap Puppies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Time Gap Puppies.
Climb into the cockpit of an otherworldly war machine and fly into battle against a horrifying alien race bent on eradicating humanity to preserve their own civilization.
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Earthion
Single-player alternative to Time Gap Puppies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Time Gap Puppies.
Earthion is a side-scrolling space shooter developed natively for 16-bit systems. Guide space fighter pilot Azusa Takanashi in her fight to repel the alien invaders and save planet Earth.
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Syder Arcade
Single-player alternative to Time Gap Puppies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Time Gap Puppies.
Killing zombies never gets old, but sometimes you just need a break. Get back to some serious old-school gaming with Syder Arcade! Syder Arcade is a love letter to Amiga games of the ‘90s, no coins, no upgrade grinding, just your tenacity and a motherload of alien invaders.
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Mineirinho Director's Cut
Single-player alternative to Time Gap Puppies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Time Gap Puppies.
A really cool 3d platform game, lots of extreme adventures with our friend Miner, now we have the option Double Miner and the adventure gets a lot cooler. Director's Cut version has unpublished scenes that have never been seen.
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Miner Ultra Adventures 2
Single-player alternative to Time Gap Puppies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Time Gap Puppies.
Our friend Miner is back !!! Amazing adventures with extreme difficulty, this 3d platform game will surprise you and give you a lot of satisfaction to overcome all the challenges !!! Be versatile and have quick reflexes to be the best !!!
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Mineirinho Shooter DC
Single-player alternative to Time Gap Puppies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Time Gap Puppies.
Miner is back and he called his very beautiful friend Lil' Pauline(Paulistinha) to enjoy a new adventures , they need to overcome the threat of space gluttons !!! Very cool and fun physical shooter style game, a unique game mechanic experience !!!
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Mineirinho Wildtides DC
Single-player alternative to Time Gap Puppies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Time Gap Puppies.
In this new adventure, Miner and his friends will have to be the greatest of the seven seas to face creatures and lovecraftian places !!! A 2d platform shooter game with small rogue-like elements and physically real water !!!
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Red Zirion
Single-player alternative to Time Gap Puppies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Time Gap Puppies.
Red Zirion is a retro shooting game with upgradeable attributes in the roguelike style. Game inspired by groups of heroes and animated series from the 80s.
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Evil Heart Fever
Single-player alternative to Time Gap Puppies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Time Gap Puppies.
This game is an intense bullet hell roguelike shooter, evolve and destroy the celestial army to try to open the hell's gate. Items, references and transformations based in : Lovecraftian universe, biblical sins, and all types of angels and celestial creatures.
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Nazi Labs
Single-player alternative to Time Gap Puppies — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action with Time Gap Puppies.
Nazi Labs is a twin-stick top-down action rogue-like game with a random level generator and cumulative power- ups, art and sprites based on the golden age of arcade games with many references to all sci- fi / nerd-universe, classic arcade games with dark theme focused on Nazi secrets and legends.